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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

—Joseph Joubert

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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

—H. L. Mencken

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Justice is truth in action.

—Benjamin Disraeli

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In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.

—Roger Allen

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Love dies only when growth stops.

—Pearl S. Buck

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The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

—Frank Herbert

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It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

—Arnold Toynbee

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We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

—Mark Twain

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

—Jean Anouilh

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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

—Henry David Thoreau

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It’s hard to get along with people. As much as you try to like them and accept them as individuals, it becomes difficult because they keep getting out of line and wasting your time.

—Henry Rollins

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Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

—Jules Renard

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America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.

—James T. Farrell

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The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt.

—Raymond Chandler

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Although the desire of acquiring the good things of this world is the prevailing passion of the American people, certain momentary outbreaks occur when their souls seem suddenly to burst the bonds of matter by which they are restrained and to soar impetuously toward heaven.

—Alexis de Tocqueville

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